Comments | aicha: Yay! and Oh no!

aicha

Yay! and Oh no!

May 03, 2007 01:32

I successfully handed both essays in on time--yay! Apologies to everyone who had to listen to me moan endlessly about them, and also thank you for doing so. It seems to be my default reaction to essays (along with panicking and doubting my self-worth), but talking through my stresses with people really helps to calm me down and put things in ( Read more... )

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m00nface May 3 2007, 01:35:45 UTC

Hey, don't worry about the personal statement having an effect on your entrance to the university! The things it may possibly have a theoretical slight influence on are ( ... )

aicha May 3 2007, 01:59:29 UTC

Thank you for your comment! :) It does make the personal statement feel like slightly less of a big deal, looking objectively at how it is actually likely to affect me in the future. The most important thing is to just have a personal statement to use, I suppose, so I'll just have to get over the pressure I'm putting on myself by wanting it to be good, and focus on just getting something down! I'm fairly certain they wouldn't appreciate me failing to include one at all :P.

Thank you also for offering to look over it for me. If I reach a point of having something vaguely coherent (ie more than 5 half-sentences) anytime soon and you're still about, I may take you up on that (if I can get over my embarrassment about how bad it is)! However, at the moment I'm very much at the stage of 'I can't do this', and I'm not sure I'll be able to produce anything to read, so we'll see...I guess it really would help to relax at this point, actually! ^^;

m00nface May 3 2007, 02:33:41 UTC

The personal statement genuinely has nothing to do with whether you go to a university or not. It's all a formality, and maybe to give them some idea of which class you might go in, or of what point of view you'll be approaching classes with, etc. Even if it isn't perfect, they're accepting you in order to teach you Japanese, so they're not expecting you to know everything already! Even if you do provide a perfect statement, they also know full well that it's not a reflection of your actual ability - the first (and last) thing my teachers said to me about it was, "Your personal statement was very impressive... I assume you had Japanese friends help you with it, yes?" XD Don't worry about it, it has pretty much no bearing on anything, you'll feel better once you have something on paper, even if it's only a rough outline for you to fill in the details a little later after a break or something ( ... )